Lot
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A SHIBAYAMA-STYLE LACQUER TABLE CABINET

A SHIBAYAMA-STYLE LACQUER TABLE CABINET
meiji period (circa 1900), signed masayoshi and kasho

Of rectangular shape with rounded top fitted with two hinged doors opening to five rectangular drawers with silver pulls and with a larger, lower rectangular drawer; decorated on the exterior doors and lower drawer in inlaid mother-of-pearl, horn and colored ivory with a cockerel, hen and chicks in recessed nashiji-ground lacquer panels within a frame of gyobu-nashiji, the sides and lid also composed of recessed panels decorated in togidashi on roiro and richly embellished nashiji grounds with another cockerel and hen, on the lid, and autumn plants and birds on the sides and large back panels; the interiors of the doors and faces of the drawers rendered in iro-e togidashi with further cockerels, hens, chicks and autumn plants on roiro-nuri grounds dusted with nashiji, the interiors of all the drawers nashiji; signed on the interior left door Kasho and sealed and signed on the right exterior door in an inlaid rectangular cartouche Masayoshi, silver drawer pulls and hinges and corner braces--12¼in. (31.1cm.) high, 9¼in. (23.5cm.) wide, 4¼in. (10.8cm.) deep, some losses to gyobu, edge nicks, vertical crack through back panel